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Where do you learn the skills to work on your car?Do you recommendations on first projects to tackle? I'd love the experience and to save the trouble of finding a mechanic I trust.

Can a frequent Kdenlive user comment on the speed performance of this update? The marketing makes it sound incredible, plus the Qt6 update.

My old OS is kind of a blackbox, in the that I played with countless tools, and I'm not really sure what I will want to reference later. For instance

• Configure different wine tweaks for games
• Playing with Monero and crypto wallets/miners
• Different VMs for tinkering with OSs
• Self-hosted software in docker containers, plus volumes
• All the software tools I used for projects
• Video game modding: some in linux, some in the "windows filesystem" created by steam with proton
• Software installed from programming package managers: pip, cargo, npm

...and on. I played with a lot of things without regard for longevity or preservation. I didn't even takes notes on what I did most of the time. So I got very worried about just switching OSs without a plan in place. Ultimately, I ended up doing the following to transition.

1. Started adding flakes to all my development projects. This would let me get my environment well defined before messing with my installations.
2. Installed nix and home-manager, and started slowly uninstalling packages from cargo/pip/apt/npm/flatpak/appimage/snap and add them to my nix config.
3. Bought a second ssd so I could preserve the current OS as is (this was much easier than shrinking partitions and install nixos alongside it, but it could have been done)
4. Finally made the jump, using the NixOS configuration on my laptop as a jumping off point. And I still reference my old OS as is, booting into once in a while to remember where things were. I don't know if I'll ever actually wipe the drive. I'm just not sure.

But of course...I'm on NixOS now! So much of these configurations and lists of software packages, will be documented forever.

Im not familiar with screenwriting. Can you elaborate on whats involved and whats expected in a tool for scripting?

Open source to some extend, but their whole thing about these emojis is that they are 3d and animated. But the repo only contains png renders if the 3d models. So you arent able to modify or animate the 3d models directly.

Imo they released enough to call it "open source" and get good PR from it without actually giving the raw source files to the community (their competitors). I was not pleased with this when they announced it 2 years ago. Its still the same.

One of the problems with Yuzu (to nintendo) was that it contained the encryption keys pulled off nintendo switches. By removing commit history you actually can permanently remove this part of the code. There might be a more clever way to do this. Thats my best guess.

All kinds. You should look at GPT4ALL at gpt4all.io. Its a gui for downloading and running LLM models locally. Its a great project. Of course, everything is local and private.

How do you use your computer? Did you really just blow away your OS and jump to one you just heard about? I ask because I spend many months preparing to make the move, and I'm still working at a deficit, since my 4 year old OS had so many hours of tinkering that went undocumented and forgotten. Im still slowly configuring my nixos box. How did you use your computer?

To be fair, you're taking on a lot of new things at once. You can spin up docker containers on windows too, all while using a UI. I think it's great your exposing yourself to self hosting, linux, command line interface, and containerization all at once, but don't beat yourself up for it taking longer than expected. A lot of it takes time. I encourage you to keep trying and playing. Good luck!

I would love to hear book recommendations from you. I can do software dev and I self host a few services personally, but I do guesswork at scaling services, security, automated deployments, CICD, etc. Do you have suggestions? (Agile books are also cool)

One of my regrets was buying a particular hario hand grinder. To adjust the size, you had to rotate a little knob underneath the burrs and it didnt have numbers, and didnt always "notch" and would spin freely, so I couldnt even count the discrete bumbs I would turn the screw.

I've since bought an encore, and I have a lot more confidence and convenience with my grinding.

I use zola for my sites. It's got not as many templates as hugo but my sites don't use templates and I found it very straightforward to use from scratch.